Freedom is available to us all the time. The freedom to choose what we want and decide what is right for us. We also have the freedom to choose what isn’t working for us. We are the ones who choose to be afraid, to get stressed, to be angry, to resent, to blame. It is all the fruit of our creation, our choice. It’s a hard thing to grasp. When a person ‘wakes up’ to this, he is in a tremendous reaction to his life, to his own mind; ”how could I have chosen this path for so many years?’ A path of guilt, blame, justification, defense, proof, competition, being the victim? How did I do it to myself? Why? What do I get from it? What’s the use of it?” When a person awakens to this simple realization, he begins to experience time and time again that he is not getting any benefit out of it, and he becomes aware of the mechanism- as it is, which will naturally generate change, because there is no more covering, everything is clear. As long as person is not fully aware of h...
listening.... Have you ever noticed how challenging it is to listen? To truly listen. Listening without interrupting the other person, disturbing, revolting, reacting, attacking, justifying, being right, or assuming. Listening without projecting what the other person meant, and how it's going to affect me. Listening without understanding. Listening with innocence, in presence. Listening is when I and the other person disappear and there is only presence. There is no separation, because there are no two - there is only one. There's only me. Without noticing, I separated myself from the other. I did not see that I was the one who had projected the other, who had created the other, inside of me. The other was simply my projection, my reflection. me. We put ideas on each other without seeing who the source of all these ideas is. We are too busy pointing out, blaming, comparing, instead of seeing that everything is within us. Listening is the taking of responsibility, that all ...